Seal.



R. J. BAKER.

- SEAL.

APPLICATION FILED 1AN.20. I915.

l,163,124 Patented De@.7,1915.

COLUMBIA PLANouR/mn CO.,\\'ASHINGTON, n. c. 4

prnTnp sTaTns TnTnisT ernten,

ROBERT J'. BAKER, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

SEAL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Fatented Dee.; 19de?,

Application filed January 20, 1915. Serial No. 3,286.

To all Iwhom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ROBERT` J. BAKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented new and useful Improvements in Seals, of which the following is a speciiication. n

The present invention relates to improvements inbag seals, such as money bag seals, of the general type disclosed in my prior Patent #837,535, dated December 4,1906;

and one object of the present invention isk to provide a seal which is simple and inexpensive in construction, capable of being applied with ease and facility, and lincapable of ybeing removed or tampered with without giving visual evidence of that fact. A further object oi the invention is to provide a seal including a yneedle and Va binding tie, together with a seal kbody adapted to receive a fusible sealing substance, such as wax or metal, to hold the tie bound and adapted to be impressed with the name or seal-mark of the bank, corporation, firm or person filling and sealing the bag.

The invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed, referencebeing had` to the accompanying drawings constituting a part of this application, in which:

Figure l is a perspective view of a form of seal embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken through the neck portion of a bag, showing the needle and tie applied ready for the nal sealing operation; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the sealed bag; and Fig. 4 is a cross section through the seal-body.

In carrying my invention into practice, I provide a seal body 1, preferably comprising a circular body of sheet metal or other suitable material, said body being formed of a base 2 provided with an upstanding marginal Jdange 3, inclosing a space or chamber 4 designed to receive a sealing medium, as hereinafter described. The shallow chambered body or receptacle 1 is provided at diametrically opposite sides in its flange 3 with openings 5 and 6, and adjacenty to the respective openings 5 and 6 are other openings 7 and 8 placed on opposite sides thereof. The side of the flange which is provided with the openings 5 is also provided with still another opening 9. The openings are arranged in the verticallwall of the ange, whichis formed with an inturned stitlening and retaining bead 10.

Extending through the'openings 5 and 6 in the flange of the body 1 is a needle 11 terminatmg at one end in a flattened eye or perforated point 12, and which projects and 1s disposed a suitable distance beyond the s ide of the flange 8 rovided with the opening 6. At its opposite end the shank or stem of the needle projects a distance beyond the diametrically opposite side of thel flange 3 through the opening 5, and this end of the needle is connected by a loop or eye 13 with a spring retaining arm 14 eX- tending into the chamber 4 opening 9.

through the` In practice, the needle and its retainingy y arm are preferably made as a whole of a single piece of spring or other wire and are applied to the body 1 in an obvious manner by inserting the needle body and the retaining arm through the holes 5, 6 and 9. The arm 14, it will be observed, .lies at an angle to and crosseskthe needle vstem or shank and hence closes the leopl and acts to frictionally bind the adjacent portions of the needle against the walls of the openings 5 land 9 to retain the needle in position against possibility of displacement. It will be evident that the needle cannot be dislodged or withdrawn without bending the retaining arm back to Permit the needle to pass outward through the openings 5 and 9, so that accidental detachment of the needle from the body l cannot possibly occur. In practice, the loop or eye 13 is provided to hold an address tag `or the like 14, but this outwardly extending loop or eye may be omitted if desired.

In employing the improved seal the neck portion of a bag 15 is gathered in the usual manner, and then the needle is thrust through the gathered neck portion of the bag, as shown in Fig. 2. The ends of atie 16 of cord or wire are then brought around the neck of the bag to form a loop and then passed through diametrically opposite sets of openings 7 and 8, and dra-wn tight to hold ythe neck tightly closed and the seal body 1 pressed against the same, the parallel strands of the tie thus being extended across the interior of the chamber 4. Finally, the seal is completed by illing the` chamber 4 up to the level of the inturned beadlO with a suitable binding and sealing material 11, such as sealing Wax or metal fusible at a low temperature, as Babbitt metal, in which the inclosed portions of the needle and tie cord or wire are embedded and sea-led. While' the material 11 is still soft the face thereof showing through the open side of the chamber may be impressed, by means of4 a suitable seal, with the name or title of the bank or other concern filling and shipping the bag. l

It will be observed that the fusible binding medium 11 will not onlvhold the needle and tie from accidental displacement, but will eifectuallv prevent any attempty to open the bag or break the seal without detection, since the 'seal cannot be removed without destroying the binding. mediuml 11 and thus giving visual evidence of the lfact that the seal has been tampered with. Furthermore, the impression upon the face of the fusible binding medium gives additional security, while the bead 10, in addition to stiifening the body 1 and permitting of its inexpensive manufacture of sheet metal, also serves to A stay the binding medium l1 and to assist in holding it in position.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

l. A seal comprising a body forming a shallow receptacle open' at one side and having its side wall provided with an in-turned bead over-hanging the chamber of the receptacle,

' a needle having a shank extending through said side wall and across the chamber of the i receptacle, a tie threaded through and across the receptacle and engaging the eye of the needle, and a plastic binding .medium within the chamber extending marginally beneath the bead and in which the inclosed portions of the needle and tie are embedded.

2. A seal comprising a circular body forming a shallow chamber open at one side, said body Vincluding a side wall bounding said chamber and provided with an inwardly projecting bead over-hanging the same, a needle extending across said chamber and extending through said side wall, a tie looped at one end and engaged with the eye of the needle and having strands extending para-lvided at diametrically opposite sides with pairs of openings, a needle fixed to said v Ilan-ge between the openings of the respective sides and having an eye projecting beyond the receptacle, a tie extending through flange, said flange being formed with a pair vof openings at one side and two pairs of openings at its opposite vside, a needle having a stem or shank passing through an opening in each side and projecting at one en-d and provided with an eye, the other end of said needle being formed with a loop and having a retaining arm extending through one of the four openings at the adjacent side at an angle into the receptacle,

a tiehaving strands passing through the other openings at the opposite sides of the flange parallel with the shank of the needle and connected at one end bya loop passing through the eye of the needle, and a body of fusible material within the receptacle and in which'the needle and tie are embedded.

5.- A seal comprising a shallow circular receptacle formedof a'bottom and an upstanding flange pro-vided with an inturned bead, a needle extending across the chamber of the receptacle andhaving a looped portion at one end projecting through and laterally beyond one side of the flange and having an eye at its opposite end projecting through and laterally beyond the opposite side of the ange, a tie looped at one'end-and engaged with the eye of the needlefand having strands extending through the flange of the receptacle and the chamber thereof in proximity to the shank of the needle, and a filling of a plastic binding medium within said receptacle andl underlyingv said bead and covering the inclosed portions of the needle and tie.

In testimony whereof I afx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT J. BAKER.

lVitnesses vLouis F. NELL,

T. B.- HUNGERFORD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents ea'cli, by addressingv the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. c 

